Category Archives: Tapahtumat

Professor Alexander Manu: ”Innovations start from vision, not technology”

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News from  EIT ICT LABS.

“In order to succeed companies must be led by visionaries. All innovations start from a big idea, not technology”, says Professor Alexander Manu who visited Helsinki to brainstorm on the next big thing for Finland. Professor Manu claims that all big leaders, like Steve Jobs, are philosophers. These leaders can understand the basic human desires and they are bold enough to lead their company to markets that do not yet exist – they create the market.

Professor Manu was the keynote speaker at the Results Day of EIT Helsinki on Wednesday 9 October hosted by Director Marko Turpeinen from EIT ICT Labs Helsinki. Manu’s inspirational keynote was also attended by representatives of the city of Espoo, the Mayor Jukka Mäkelä and director Tuula Antola.

EIT ICT results ws Manu&Espoo

Picture from EIT ICT LAbs

Provocative author, speaker and leading practitioner in the field of strategic foresight, Alexander Manu surveyed in his speech how organisations transform ideas into platforms for engagement and participation, or what he calls “a new behavior space”. Manu continued that life is about seeking pleasure in any form, by all means. Products that fulfill the human desires and create a new behaviour succeed. Google is about fulfilling our desire to know and understand, Facebook our desire to leave a mark. Innovation is the creation of new behavior.

http://www.alexandermanu.com/alexandermanu.com/About.html

See presentation videos:

Keynote: The business of innovation in behaviour space by Alexander Manu (sound quality is poor, but still HIGHLY WORTH of watching!!)

Business opportunities in smart spaces by Petri Liuha.

More presentations..

Mini-PDP with Lauttasaaren lukio at Urban Mill

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Lauttasaari High School students started their own mini-PDP (Product Development Project) course at Urban Mill. Andy from Design Factory and Natalie from Startup Sauna will run twice a month workshops at Urban Scene. The co-learning and co-design concept is the same as at the Design Factory for the university students. Two companies gave design challenges to students and we’ll see the results of their work at the PDP Gaala next spring.

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High School students take over Urban Mill

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The gap between secondary schools and universities have been enlarging, especially today when the statistic shows that 65 % of students entering post-secondary school today have no idea what their future careers will entail, partly because many industries have been disrupted and new jobs will be created.

Design Factory and Startup Sauna, Urban Mill’s older brothers and neighbors have joined forces to try to bridge the gap for high school students. Together, they are working with Lauttasaaren Yhteiskoulu and have formulated a curriculum that ties together entrepreneurship and Product Development to give the students an opportunity to be creative, think outside the box and work on real industries projects.

Urban Mill hosted a session for these students on October 9th, and will host many more in the future.

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“The space at Urban Mill is wonderful, it is rough, not new, and allows the creative juices to flow” says Andy Clutterbuck, Design Factory’s Coach and co-founder of this high school program.  “We know that innovation is not learned in a typical school classroom with row of desks, so open places like Urban Mill, Startup Sauna and Design Factory are crucial for these types of workshops.”

The other co-founder of the program is Natalie Gaudet from Startup Sauna. Together, they bring a great dynamic and different perspective to teach the high school students.

Throughout the academic year, these students will be working in teams and will be solving a problem that real companies have. The final projects will be showcased at Design Factory in April in a Gala.

Aukeaako Taivas vai Helvetti 10.10. klo 10 Myllyllä?

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Torstaina yrittäjämylly pyörähtää iloisesti. Jokainen Espoon lukion 1 500 abiturientista saa lahjoituksena Taivas+helvetti–kirjan. Kirjat luovuttaa kustantaja Mika Mäkeläinen. Lahjoituksen tavoitteena on levittää yrittäjyyden hyvää sanomaa tulevaisuuden tekijöille. Paikalle on kutsuttu Espoon kaupungin, kaikkien lukioiden, yrittäjien, yrittämisen yleisten edistäjien ja median edustajia. Tilaisuus kestää tunnin.

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Urban Mill – missä oikein ollaan?
Kari Mikkelä, vastaava tuottaja

Avaussanat
Sampo Suihko, Espoon sivistystoimen johtaja

Espoo – yritysystävällisin kaupunki?
Tuula Antola, Espoon elinkeinotoimen johtaja

Innolukio – kehittämisen katalysaattori
Harri Rinta-aho, Etelä-Tapiolan lukion rehtori

Lahjoituksen luovutus ja vastaanotto

Taivas+helvetti-projektin lähtökohdat ja tavoitteet
Mika Mäkeläinen, kustantaja

Yrittäminen – Suomen, Espoon ja koulujen yhteinen haaste
Timo Soini, Espoon kaupunginvaltuuston puheenjohtaja

Yrittäjä – itseasiassa kuultuna
Erkki Pärssinen, toimitusjohtaja, Espoon Yrittäjät
Kalle Freese, nuori yrittäjä

Lukio ja yrittäminen – mitä me teemme, mitä me kaipaamme?
Titta Putus-Hilasvuori, historian ja yhteiskuntaopin lehtori, Pohjois-Tapiolan lukio
Kersti Reittu, opiskelija, Pohjois-Tapiolan lukio

Arkkitehdit kriittisinä Myllyllä!!!

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A-laitoksen Yhdyskunta- ja kaupunkisuunnitelun kurssin kritiikkitilaisuus avasi toiminnan Urban Balconylla. Puolen sataa opiskelijaa opettajineen arvioi iltaan asti oppilaiden kaupunkimalleja. Eloisan dialogin lomassa nautittiin Urban Kitchenin antimista.

a-laitos kritiikki 7.10.13

Yhteensä lähes sata kaupunkimallia – tämän kritiikin työt ja joukko edellisten vuosien töitä – ovat esillä parvella jatkossakin. A-laitos tekee niille telineet ikkunan alle syksyn aikana.

Venuu.fi tilapalvelu aukesi – Urban Mill pilottiasiakkaana!

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Venuu.fi on auki!

Venuu.fi on aaltolainen startup, joka voitti elokuussa Summer of Startups leirin ykköspalkinnon naapurissamme Startup Saunalla.  Urban Mill tukee toimintaa palvelun pilottiasiakkaaan roolissa, venuu.fi/venues/urban-cave.

”Finding the right venue for any event is both time-consuming and frustrating. Information is scattered, incomplete and difficult to access. We remove this inconvenience by taking care of your next event’s venue search in an intuitive and automated web service.”

”Jo lähes 200 tilaa on luonut seksikkään profiilinsa palveluun: 79 pikkujoulutilaa, 123 kokoustilaa, 83 seminaaritilaa, 77 häätilaa, 74 biletilaa, 40 saunallista tilaa… Mitä ikinä järjestätkin, nyt tiedät, mistä aloittaa tilaetsinnät! Suuntaa siis osoitteeseen Venuu.fi ja löydä monia Helsingin alueen tapahtumatilojen tuntemattomia helmiä – kuvineen! ”

”Tunnetko upeita tiloja? Auta meitä auttamaan kaikkia tilaisuuksien järjestäjiä suosittelemalla palvelua tuntemillesi tiloille! Vinkkaa meille tuntemistasi tiloista osoitteeseen: jasu@venuu.fi, Tervetuloa Venuu.fi:hin!  Postiosoitteemme: Venuu, Vironkatu 11 B 25, Helsinki 00170”

CSE Digital Service Design Course at Urban Mill

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  • CSE-E6250 Digital Service Design, Course with Varying Content (3 ECTS)
  • October 14 – 18 at Startup Sauna and Urban Mill, both at Betonimiehenkuja 3
  • Max number of participants: 10

”Intensive course on theatrical methods in user centric service design”

Byron Stewart, Co-Founder and Artistic Director at Dramatic Diversity (Chicago, USA) will be visiting Finland in October and will be hosting a course on emphatic service design using theatrical methods.

The course will be arranged in co-operation with the Urban Mill in Otaniemi. In the course students will learn how to various methods to strengthen their empathy for the users of the service they create and in this way design better services.

The course is open for students of service design at all Aalto Schools. You should be familiar with service design concepts and methods and hence the course mainly targets 2nd year Master’s level students.

In the course the students will we working on new and innovative concepts for having lunch on the Aalto campus.

Course program:

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Urban Mill esiteltiin pääministeri Kataiselle

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Lars Miikki Urban Millistä esitteli myllyn toimintaa pääministeri Jyrki Kataiselle eduskunnassa 1.10. järjestetyssä Kokoomuksen palkansaajavaltuuskunnan tapaamisessa. Valtuuskunnan puheenjohtaja, kansanedustaja Sari Sarkomaan isännöimä tilaisuus veti sankan joukon ammattijärjestökentän vaikuttajia pohtimaan yhdessä Suomen tulevaisuuden menestyksen eväitä.

Pääministeri Katainen korosti jatkuvan itseuudistumisen tärkeyttä sekä uusien innovatiivisten toimintamallien tarvetta yhteiskunnan kasvaviin haasteisiin vastaamisessa ja palvelujen kehittämisessä. Urban Milliä pääministeri piti toivoa antavana esimerkkinä.

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DIGILE Business Forum: Agile and Lean Innovation Leadership needed!

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”Need for speed – Leadership in the digital economy” was the main theme discussed during the DIGILE Business Forum on 30.09.2013 at Dipoli. Urban Mill is bridging thoughts and activities between two SHOKS, DIGILE and RYM, and took of course part to this interesting Forum.

There are no speed limits on the road to digital economy leadership. During the last few years it has become very clear that the digital economy (also called the Internet economy or the second economy) is the fastest growing sector of all developed economies, and also of several developing economies. Already in the leading countries the digital economy forms roughly 10 per cent of GDP. We are in the middle of a new industrial revolution that will radically shape all industries, and all domains of business – also leadership and management. Speed of new business development will be one of the key ingredients of the new leadership skill set.

DIGILE Business Forum 2013 focused on the challenges of business leadership in the digital economy. Through discussions initiated by expert presentations, you partipants got inspiration and information to better cope with the digital era of leadership. The event was targeted at all companies and business leaders in all industries.

This year a special focus was on the US. The US is one of the innovation leaders in the field of ICT, business and digital services. Finland-US cooperation in new digital business creation could create concrete success factors for both parties, not only in the US market but also in the third markets together with American partners.

Business Forum agenda and presentations can be downloaded from here:

http://www.digile.fi/events/businessforum2013

Regional Innovation Ecosystems workshop started at Urban Mill

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`Regional Innovation Ecosystems` workshop, CS 0010, 3 ECTS
30.9-11.10, Design Factory, Urban Mill, Start-Up Sauna, Otaniemi Campus

Download Regional Ecosystems poster and PRELIMINARY programme Regional Innovation Ecosystems workshop CS 0010_LM

The workshop is the Kick-Off and the pilot workshop on integrating Creative Sustainability studies in the development process of the T3 area (Otaniemi-Tapiola- Keilaniemi) in the global context (collaboration with Espoo and Shanghai cities).

The workshop is organized with local stakeholders and partners from Tongji University/Shanghai.

CASE: The main task of this workshop is to plan and design a desirable courtyard for Aalto University Design Factory, Urban Mill and Start-Up Sauna that will inspire the development of the creative community on Otaniemi Campus. The outdoor space should have following features: sustainability, creative, accessibility, reasonable function, interaction with the above mentioned buildings, surroundings (T3 area, Otaniemi, Keilaniemi, Tapiola) and stakeholders, user friendly and inclusive consideration, etc.

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Course keeps its home base  in the Urban Cave.

The course is a team-based workshop that will start with context study, lectures and brainstorming, will be followed by a working studio, to develop several scenarios of how the space can be used by the people of Aalto University and its collaborators. The students will finally finish the project with a power point presentation and a poster (and a physical model). Lecturing, brain storming, group share, critique and desk review will be the main teaching tools.

Teachers in Charge:

Aalto University/CS, Programme Director Tiina Laurila, gsm:+358 50 4433977
Tongji University/College of Design and Innovation; Dean, Prof. LOU Yongqi

Workshop teachers: urban planning&design; Jarmo Suominen, architecture&building engineering; Markku Lappalainen, business&innovation; Antti Ainamo and design&art; Laura Isoniemi, Ari Laitala; land use management & real estate business, Visiting lecturers

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